Just a little less than a year ago, I was contacted by a producer from a UK-based production company making a documentary series on the story of Ashley Madison; long-time readers will recall that I played a small part in exposing the company’s scam long before it became common knowledge. It turns out that when the documentary writers were doing their research, they dscovered a heap of internal Ashley Madison emails complaining about my expose in general and having a cow over my publishing screenshots of their bot-creating interface in particular. The company was so worried, in fact, that it resorted to what Ken “Popehat” White refers to as “bumptious legal threats”, trying to intimidate me into taking down the column (fat chance) by foolishly threatening me with a libel suit while also claiming that I had published proprietary information (ie, admitting that my statements were not libelous because they were true). Anyhow, Ken told them (in a legal way, of course) what they could do with their suit, and I watched with glee as everything I said was eventually proven correct. The fact that I knew about it long before the proof became common knowledge was fascinating to the documentary producers, and so they sent a camera crew to Sunset last October to interview me. Anyhow, the documentary premiered on Hulu last Friday, and though the reviews seem mixed people are telling me my part was great, so give it a watch and see for yourself!
Posts Tagged ‘lawyers’
Diary #680
Posted in Diary, Perception, tagged Ashley Madison, lawyers, Maggie in the Media, scams on July 11, 2023| 4 Comments »
In the News (#1301)
Posted in Current Events, Miscellaneous, News, Tyranny, tagged Alabama, Australia, brothels, California, cell phones, cops, Do As I Say, Down Under, Florida, lawyers, New York, New Zealand, No Escape, porn, prisons, Pyrrhic Victory, rape, scams, Stalkers in Blue, surveillance, To Molest and Rape, Torture Chamber on January 5, 2023| Leave a Comment »
We have the right to be safe at work just like anybody. – Cherida Fraser
This is brazen even by cop standards:
An [Alabama cop] pulled over a woman before kidnapping and [rap]ing her [at gunpoint]…Joshua Davidson…is facing federal charges…since…[the] Jan. 30, 2020…[attack]…prosecutors filed a motion asking the court to detain Davidson…[because] he is “a flight risk and danger to the community”…[having] previously fled…to New Hampshire…in 2020…However, the court denied the prosecution’s motion [because cop]…
In the US, the government would’ve “helped” by prosecuting the victims:
…John-Paul Pohe…filmed 14…sex [workers in session] and went on to face 17 charges of making an intimate visual recording…Pohe was also sentenced for the repeated rape and sexual violation of a young girl…he [also] filmed the [rapes] and kept the footage on his phone…le[ading] to hi[s] being caught…Pohe recorded the [women] – three of wh[om] he recorded twice – without…consent between September 2021 and April this year at four different brothels around the Wellington region…he [would] put his phone in one of his shoes at the end of the bed, to covertly capture the [act]. The discovery of the recordings led to identifying the women, [none] of whom had [any] idea they had been filmed…In each video the[ir]…faces are visible…
Kelly Conlon and her daughter [went] to New York City the weekend after Thanksgiving as part of a Girl Scout field trip to Radio City Music Hall to see the Christmas Spectacular show. But…Conlon was…identified [by a facial recognition system]…security guards approached her right as he got into the lobby…and…kicked her out…she [i]s an attorney…with the New Jersey based law firm, Davis, Saperstein and Solomon, which for years has been involved in personal injury litigation against a restaurant venue now under the umbrella of MSG Entertainment…”This whole scheme is a pretext for doing collective punishment on adversaries who would dare sue MSG in their multi-billion dollar network,” said Sam Davis, a partner at the firm…Other firms have sued over being blacklisted. Conlon said she thought a recent judge’s order in one of those cases made it clear that ticketholders like her “may not be denied entry to any shows”…
Where “alleged” is used to mean “endemic”:
For five decades, [young people condemned to] Los Angeles County [prison] camps and [cage stacks] have suffered repeated sexual assaults at the hands of [screws and] probation…officers, according to a lawsuit filed by nearly 300 [victims]…The…suit, involving 279 plaintiffs, follows two lawsuits filed earlier this year [by] 70 women…[who] were sexually assaulted [in]…other…facilities. [Screws]…not only [raped and] abused teenage girls, but also…boys…
Stalkers in Blue (Rapist Roundup) 
Cops are sexual predators who often specifically target traumatized women:
Rachel Wilks was just 15 when…[she was] assaulted by a family member…[Victoria cop Jayden] Faure [started] grooming…[her via text and Snapchat and] also checking the details of one of her family members on the police [“]LEAP[“] database without any legitimate reason…[at least] 178 [cops] have…misuse[d]…LEAP in the past five years…[only] 65…were disciplined, and…Faure…was…the only o[ne of them] to be convicted…
Do As I Say, Not As I Do (#1292) 
It’s always lovely to see them feeding on each other:
A…[typical and representative Florida cop named] Jarrod Eldridge was arrested…[for interacting with] a…coworker…[fantasy role-play]ing as a 14-year-old girl named Jenny…Eldridge…[and the other wanker] exchanged dozens of messages, and Eldridge sent a photo of himself…
They’ll use any dodge to avoid saying “cop”, especially when the victims are literal babies:
A [typical and representative] Florida [cop]…received 60 years in prison for sexually abusing children on video. Scott Matthew Yotka…videotaped himself abusing two children and distributed it over the internet, according to…an…FBI agent…[who was pretending to be a fellow]…molest[er]…The FBI agent asked Yotka how he kept the kids quiet about the abuse, and he responded, “they are young and don’t talk”…Yotka a[lso confessed]…he was an administrator on a social media for people who like “little kid things, incest fetishes and animal things”…
I find paywalls distasteful, and so many people find this blog valuable as a resource I just can’t bring myself to install one. Furthermore, I find ad delivery services (whose content I have no say over) even more distasteful. But as I’m now semi-retired from sex work, I can’t self-sponsor this blog by myself any longer. So if you value my writing enough that you would pay to see it if it were paywalled, please consider subscribing; there are four different levels to fit all budgets. Or if that doesn’t work for you, please consider showing your generosity with a one-time donation; you can Paypal to maggiemcneill@earthlink.net or else email me at the same address to make other arrangements. Thanks so much!
Links #652
Posted in Current Events, Links, Miscellaneous, Music, Obituary, Tyranny, tagged Alabama, Arizona, Believe Them, cell phones, comics, Connecticut, cops, language, lawyers, Minnesota, Never Call the Cops, New York, racism, STEM, Stop faking!, video on January 3, 2023| 3 Comments »
Stop, please. – Ryan Marzi
I wanted to commemorate the passing of the co-creator of the Moog synthesizer with a selection from 1968’s Switched-On Bach, but apparently the copyright holder must be aggressively censorious because no videos are to be found on YouTube or Vimeo. So here’s one from Daily Motion which has a stupid function that continues to play videos whether you like it or not; I don’t know HTML well enough to know which code to remove to stop it, so you’ll need to close it entirely. The links above the video were provided by Scott Greenfield, Cop Crisis (x2), Jesse Walker, Stephen Lemons, and Cop Crisis (x2 again), in that order.
- Stop faking!
- Instant karma.
- In their own words.
- R.I.P. Herbert Deutsch.
- I see Monty Python contributed to this season’s script.
- So many words to pretend a murder wasn’t really a murder.
- Not the first time cops have claimed harassment “builds rapport”.
From the Archives
- Prohibition turns bodies into “crime scenes” which cops can violate at will.
- In case you thought screws restricted their petty sadism to the prisoners.
- More cops raping sex workers (excuse me, “rescuing trafficking victims”).
- Cops wait a year to arrest a dangerous, violent serial rapist. Guess why?
- A study trashes the justifications for ruinous authoritarian “lockdowns”.
- I recently gave an interview for the 30th anniversary of Pretty Woman.
- Imprisonment doesn’t magically become “care” for prisoners under 18.
- Nobody will be safe until this odious practice is ruled unconstitutional.
- When will the US abandon “re-education” for sex workers and clients?
- A Nigerian vice gang allowed to do anything to terrorize sex workers.
- Just another lying politician who wants to police others’ private lives.
- It’s good to see this lurid narrative turned against cops for a change.
- The State finally “finds” what thousands have told them for decades.
- Even the yellow press can no longer ignore this megalomaniac’s lies.
- Even I am impressed with the speed this is happening in New York.
- What about authors who aren’t violent, genocidal megalomaniacs?
- “Give me your huddled masses, so I can torture and deport them”.
- Americans will believe basically any scaremongering about teens.
- Cops, games, Bach, Pierre Cardin, Dawn Wells, and much more.
- Opportunists produce “studies” to “find” what is already known.
- A new level of public support for sex workers from a politician.
- In mass surveillance, fascism beats communism hands down.
- A long-overdue move by Mexico to throw off US domination.
- A “national leader in the field of sex offender management”.
- Previous columns for New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day.
- It usually starts with us, but it never, ever stops with us.
- The 20th anniversary of my becoming a full-time escort.
- The rising costs of promoting “sex trafficking” hysteria.
- Horrifyingly-abusive nuns are not restricted to Ireland.
- An important victory in the fight for sex worker rights.
- Fascist corporations are eager to assist in a genocide.
- A retrospective of my blogging from December 2011.
- Useful idiots claim you don’t need anonymity online.
- Cops regularly demonstrate exactly what they are.
- Cops, roadkill, Sally Ann Howes, and much more.
- Congress won’t stop until it controls the internet.
- There is nothing as contagious as a bad idea.
- Beginning the remodeling project at Sunset.
- Cops, fantasy, love in Iran, and much more.
- A video about China’s genocide of Uighurs.
- The loveliest Christmas in years.
- The “security” system that isn’t.
- The future is rooted in the past.
- What a lovely Christmas I had!
- All prohibitionism is the same.
- “Pastors” are as bad as cops.
- So progress! Much Seattle!
- My official semi-retirement.
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In the News (#1280)
Posted in Current Events, Miscellaneous, News, Tyranny, tagged censorship, Choke Point, cops, Do As I Say, drugs, Enablers, Fair-Weather Friends, Google, Hall of Shame, Illinois, internet, lawyers, Not For Everybody, Ohio, Part of the Picture, porn, rape, scams, surveillance, Texas, To Molest and Rape, underage, You Were Warned on October 15, 2022| 2 Comments »
PayPal…shouldn’t be surprised if people don’t trust it. – Robby Soave
Funny how many cops who are willing to pay prefer underage girls:
Thomas Peoples…was [fired from his position as] the police chief in Oak Ridge, Texas…[after] he was arrested in Arlington…and charged with solicitation of prostitution from a person under 18…
Another ex-sex worker thinks it’s her job to cheat her sisters out of money:
Former porn star Lana Rhoades is hitting out against the industry that made her a worldwide star, saying it should be made “illegal”. Rhoades…worked in the field for eight months between 2016 and 2017, appearing in more than 250…films…[but she now claims] she was still scarred from the experience…Rhoades…was…19 when she appeared in her first X-rated scene…“For some reason I never comprehended that to do porn you actually have to have sex with people,” she said…
Rhoades is such a naive idiot, it seems unfair to put her in the Hall of Shame for just demonstrating what she is. But if she goes beyond words to actually work with prohibitionists, I won’t be so lenient.
Why was anyone surprised that something openly advertised as spyware is actually spyware?
Two religious surveillance apps marketed as “porn filters” to churchgoers across America…[have been] ban[ned] by the Google app store…following a recent…report by Wired magazine…[which explained that] Covenant Eyes and Accountable2You spied on churchgoers’ searches and then sent the information to religious leaders [just as they are intended to do. Yet]…after Wired [told]…Google…[that the apps functioned as advertised], the search giant determined that [the apps] violated its privacy policies…
About a twelfth of the time his long string of crimes deserves:
A [typical and representative] Columbus [Ohio] vice [pig] was sentenced to [a mere 18 months in] prison for violating the civil rights of a person he [had decided to ruin]…Steven Rosser…[repeatedly harassed] one of the owners of a gentlemen’s club…and…[also] scheme[d] to frame…[h]im for cocaine possession…
Roblox and Discord are among the platforms sued for allegedly harming children and teens in a new lawsuit…which also targets…Facebook…and…Snapchat…Filed in California state court, the suit is one of many [attempting to rob] large social media companies. But comparatively few of these have covered Discord and Roblox, both of which are popular with young users. (Over half of US children were on Roblox as of 2020.) It comes shortly after California Governor Gavin Newsom signed a law requiring sites to [violate all users’ privacy in the name of “child safety”. The ambulance-chasers’ poster child is]…a 13-year-old girl…who began using Roblox around age 9…and…[supposedly developed] a “harmful and problematic dependence” on electronic devices that damaged her mental health, [even though it is not possible to become “addicted” to electronic devices]…Like most cases against social networks, the suit seeks to hold the services responsible for defective product design — and in the process, circumvent Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act…
PayPal is becoming a major threat to civil liberties:
Last week, PayPal rolled out an updated user agreement…that…prohibits “the sending, posting, or publication of any messages, content, or materials” that “present a risk to user safety or wellbeing” or contain “misinformation”…what counts as misinformation is at PayPal’s “sole discretion”…and PayPal [granted itself the “right” to steal] $2,500 from the [targeted] user’s account…[after considerable outcry] PayPal…backtracked…[claiming the threat was]…”an…error that included incorrect information”…
Since PayPal disseminated misinformation, it seems to me it now owes every one of its users $2500.
Chicago is hiding the identity of another of its costumed rapists:
A federal grand jury has indicted a [typical and representative] Chicago [cop for]…the…kidnapping and [rape] of an [unidentified] individual [o]n March [5th] 2019. James Sajdak…also faced a federal civil rights lawsuit filed by Tyshee Featherstone…[whom he also raped] the same day. Featherstone’s [sui]t was settled in April 2020…Sajdak was [also] accused of harassment in a separate lawsuit filed by Geneva Perry, who[m]…he…[terrorized during a pretextual stop] on Sept. 8, 2016…then masturbated in front of her between their two parked cars…That lawsuit was settled in December 2019…
I find paywalls distasteful, and so many people find this blog valuable as a resource I just can’t bring myself to install one. Furthermore, I find ad delivery services (whose content I have no say over) even more distasteful. But as I’m now semi-retired from sex work, I can’t self-sponsor this blog by myself any longer. So if you value my writing enough that you would pay to see it if it were paywalled, please consider subscribing; there are four different levels to fit all budgets. Or if that doesn’t work for you, please consider showing your generosity with a one-time donation; you can Paypal to maggiemcneill@earthlink.net or else email me at the same address to make other arrangements. Thanks very much!
In the News (#1252)
Posted in Current Events, Miscellaneous, News, Tyranny, tagged abortion, censorship, cops, ethics, Florida, If Men Were Angels, Illinois, Indiana, law, lawyers, masturbation, Ohio, Property of the State, rape, restaurants, South Carolina, Stalkers in Blue, Texas, The Mob Rules, The Vultures Descend, Thought Control, Twitter, Virginia, Welcome to the Future on July 9, 2022| 1 Comment »
It’s hard to imagine that in just a few short weeks we will have no ability to provide…care [to kids impregnated by rape]. – Caitlin Bernard
Such pro-life, very protecting children:
…three days after the Supreme Court issued its…decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, Dr. Caitlin Bernard, an Indianapolis obstetrician-gynecologist, took a call from a colleague, a child abuse doctor in Ohio…[where sociopathic politicians] had outlawed any abortion after six weeks. Now this doctor had a 10-year-old patient in the office who was six weeks and three days pregnant…abortion providers [in Indiana] have…experienc[ed] a dramatic increase in the number of patients coming to their clinics from neighboring states with more restrictive policies…
It’s striking how much the sexual behavior of “pastors” resembles that of cops:
A Florida pastor has been arrested for exposing himself and masturbating outside a Starbucks…Enginio Dali Muniz-Colon…is a pastor in Kissimmee and…[w]as…previously…charged over a similar incident at the same Starbucks…
If this shocks you, you haven’t been paying attention:
Angeli Rose Gomez, the mother who ran into Robb Elementary School to save her two young kids during the [Uvalde, Texas school] shooting, says she’s since faced a barrage of frightening harassment from [cops] in retaliation for her rightfully harsh criticisms of them in the media. Gomez’s lawyer, Mark Di Carlo, announced plans this week to take legal action…and also offered specific, chilling details about what their harassment of Gomez has entailed…Gomez was recently pulled over…and…falsely accused of having “illegal immigrants” in her car…police parked outside Gomez’s house for 45 minutes and flashed their lights at her and her mother as they took a walk…police approached an unnamed family member of Gomez’s, and told the[m]…to tell Gomez to stop speaking to the media…
No, it can’t. And scientists who create weapons of oppression like this are moral imbeciles:
An artificial intelligence can now predict the location and rate of crime across a city a week in advance with up to 90 per cent accuracy. Similar systems have been shown to perpetuate racist bias in policing, and the same [is] true in this case, but the researchers who created this AI [deny it]…Ishanu Chattopadhyay at the University of Chicago [is the chief badge-licker on this project]…
I’m sure the “freeze peach” morons will vomit out something about fires and theaters:
A [spook] and two p[igs] showed up to a North Texas woman’s house on Thursday morning…to…threaten…he[r]…after she posted in anger over the Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade. The feds’ letter to Madeline Walker [ignored the fact that hyperbolically]…tweet[ing] about burning government buildings [does not constitute a credible threat or any other category of speech that is considered unprotected by the First Amendment]…and…threaten[ed her]…with…criminal charges…Joshua Henry, a [thug] for DHS, confirmed the letter’s authenticity…Walker [pointed out that]…“Pastor Dillon Awes of Stedfast Baptist Church in Fort Worth is allowed to preach that gay people should be ‘lined up against the wall and shot in the back of the head.’ when people reported him to the police they said, ‘free speech’” …Henry [responded by threatening her again for] sharing the letter on Twitter…[and demanded a US citizen be] “remorseful” [for exercising her civil rights rather than kowtowing to the precious fee-fees of petty bureaucrats]…
Some tyrannies are too loathsome even for some cops:
Charleston County Sheriff Kristin Graziano commented…on her office’s role in the recently passed law that essentially bans abortion after six weeks. The state legislature [demands] abortion providers to send sheriff’s offices reports of women who were impregnated by rape or incest and are trying to terminate the pregnancy. “I want the public to know that while these providers are now mandated by law to send us these reports regardless of the will of their patients, we will not contact the patient if she doesn’t want us to…sexual assault…is traumatizing, and my agency will do everything we can to offer…respect to these women who are seeking health care”…
If you support restrictions on “offensive” speech, you helped create this lunacy:
Virginia Beach [shyster] and [politician] Tim Anderson is suing publisher Oni Press and author Maia Kobabe on behalf his client Tommy Altmann, a[nother politician]…claim[ing] that Kobabe’s work is damaging under the state’s obscenity laws…Gender Queer and A Court of Mist and Fury–the other book being challenged in this suit–do not fall under obscene materials in any definition of the law[, but Anderson fully admits his intention is to be a nuisance]…
In the News (#1247)
Posted in Current Events, Miscellaneous, News, Tyranny, tagged advertising, censorship, cops, Craigslist, Creepy Coppers, Crying for Nanny, drugs, fascism, hysteria, I Spy, internet, Kansas, law, lawyers, porn, propaganda, Stalkers in Blue, surveillance, Texas, The Puritan Recrudescence, The Spiral of Absurdity, Unsafe for Human Consumption, video, yellow journalism on June 22, 2022| 1 Comment »
Requiring a pinky promise of a court order [i]s woefully insufficient [to prevent surveillance abuse]. – Ron Wyden
The Department of Justice has charged [Adrian O. Pena,] a Deputy U.S. Marshal for…using access to a controversial phone tracking service offered by a company called Securus to track the physical location of people he had personal relationships with as well as their spouses…between September 2016 and October 2017…He did this by uploading fake documents to the Securus platform that he claimed gave him authority to obtain requested location data…Securus is a massive prison and law enforcement contractor that, among many other things, previously offered a service for geolocating nearly all phones in the United States called Location Based Services…
The Spiral of Absurdity (#916)
All prohibitionism is the same:
According to [fantasists at] the…DEA…teens simply message a sequence of emojis that symbolize the substance they’re after so that their dealer can avoid any kind of digital detection. The secret codes also help youngsters keep their habits a secret from their parents, who likely have no idea what the emojis actually represent. Now, the DEA has released a chart titled “Emoji Drug Code: Decoded ” to [spread disinformation] about the [reasons for]…the soaring number of adolescent overdose deaths…
The only winners are the ambulance-chasers:
A [professional “survivor”] who brought a civil lawsuit seeking [to cash in with a FOSTA-enabled nuisance “]sex trafficking[” lawsuit]…against Craigslist [is out of luck, as he lawyers should’ve told her, because]…the online service is immune from the claims under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act…
Seems like a significant fraction of child porn is spread by cops:
Maryland [cop] Daniel Morozewicz…has…pleaded guilty to possessing and distributing over 12,000 files of child pornography…on the BitTorrent file sharing network. Morozewicz also used multiple electronic devices to download and distribute child pornography involving [toddlers] and infants…
Unsafe for Human Consumption (#1208)
Media stenographers are always happy to indulge cops’ violent fantasies:
The Kansas City, Kansas Police Department is [spread]ing [moronic copaganda] about…fentanyl…[an important medicine which, despite a fantasy popular among cops, is not an aerosol and cannot be absorbed through casual] exposure…[a hysterical pig named] Dallas Thompson [suffered a panic attack when he thought he was exposed, and] his [gang wasted] five rounds of Narcan [despite that medicine only being effective vs opiates, not panic attacks. But] the [prohibitionist gang] is still e[ager to tell tall tales about drugs and brag about what might heroes they supposedly are]…
Hint: if five doses of Narcan doesn’t help, you’re not overdosing on opioids.
The Puritan Recrudescence (#1230)
Journalism is slowly dying of gullibility:
The New Yorker…staff writer Sheelah Kolhatkar wrote a lengthy feature detailing horrific allegations of child sexual abuse material allegedly uploaded to Pornhub…[and] spend[ing] thousands of words praising #Traffickinghub creator…Laila Mickelwait for [supposedly] helping women…Kolhatkar…describes Mickelwait designating Pornhub a sex-trafficking ring before highlighting her supposed mission: holding Pornhub’s parent company MindGeek “accountable”. The problem is that despite Mickelwait’s protestations, her goal isn’t to save victims. It’s to abolish the porn industry…
Here are FIRE’s first new ads; there are five in all and they’ll play in sequence.
Your Body, Your Choice
Posted in Current Events, Philosophy, Tyranny, tagged abortion, consensual crime, drugs, law, lawyers, pregnancy, video on May 16, 2022| Leave a Comment »
If there is one succinct statement which sums up my political philosophy, it’s “Every adult individual owns themselves and absolutely nobody has the right to overrule that.” There is no such thing as “legitimate” authority over an individual except that conferred personally by that individual for themelves and no one else, and even that can be revoked by the granter. And I’ve stated many times that my definition of “evil” is “The attempt to impose control over an individual which that individual neither desires or requires”. I will oppose to the death any attempt to impose such undesired control over any individual, and have done so my entire adult life; my advocacy for sex work is really only the most visible manifestation of that philosophical core. So obviously, I’m going to provide any assistance I can to any person threatened by violent busybodies who claim the “right” to control their bodies and lives, no matter what reasons the authoritarians may claim. With that in mind, here are just a few resources for women living in states trying to assert control over their bodies:
“Medication Abortions Are Increasing: What They Are and Where Women Get Them” (NY Times)
Las Libres provides support to “Women who wish to terminate undesirable pregnancies, offering them access to medical abortion and moral support”
Reproaction offers this instructional video:
And if, Aphrodite forbid, you should get in some kind of legal trouble due to busybodies claiming control over your own body, the Repro Legal Defense Fund may be able to help.
Please link this page far and wide, and add any more resources you know of in the comments below. Some states are attempting to criminalize those who “aid and abet” a person to get an abortion, so please feel free to pass the links on to those who may need them (anonymously, if neccesary); I’m used to being an outlaw so I don’t honestly care if Missouri or Texas or Louisiana decides to add one more to my mountanous heap of “crimes” of denying the state control over individual lives. And if you have other sources you think I should know about directly, send them to me via this link.
In the News (#1236)
Posted in Current Events, Miscellaneous, News, Tyranny, tagged consensual crime, cops, Creepy Coppers, Crying for Nanny, drugs, fantasy, hotels, hysteria, If Men Were Angels, infidelity, lawyers, Maggie in the Media, neofeminism, New York, North Carolina, Oklahoma, porn, rape, rescue industry, Sales Pitch, Smoke and Mirrors, Sweden, Swedish model, Tennessee, Texas, The Cop Myth, Washington (state), Winding Down on May 14, 2022| Leave a Comment »
The pursuit of sex buyers…functions…[by] targeting people in the sex trade and result[s] in forced evictions, deportations and police harassment. – Niina Vuolajärvi
Bound By the Cloak is a new-ish podcast whose tagline is, “Candid conversations about the unspoken”. Episode 6 is entitled “Grande Horizontale”, so you can probably guess who is interviewed in it. Give it a listen; I think you’ll enjoy it even if you’ve heard me talk about these topics before.
If the Swedish model is so successful, why are they threatening to increase the penalties?
The European Sex Worker Alliance (ESWA) is circulating a petition in solidarity with Swedish sex worker activists fighting a politically motivated attempt to require mandatory jail time for their clients…the…threat…has been Trojan-Horsed into…a series of legal reforms [driven]…by various sex panics fostered by the press…
Another of those cases whose reported details don’t add up:
On April 8, a [man] and his teenage daughter were at a Dallas Mavericks basketball game…in Dallas. Just before halftime, the daughter left her seat to use the restroom. After she didn’t return, the father went to look for her and notified arena security, staff, and Dallas police of her being missing…lawyer Zeke Fortenberry…[claims] the family repeatedly called Dallas police to help find their daughter…[but] Dallas police…didn’t make any efforts to locate the girl…[so] the family reached out to a [rescueindustry group called] the Texas Counter-Trafficking Initiative…[which claims it] found [her pictures] on a[n escort] website…in Oklahoma City…and…Oklahoma City police…[found her] at an Extended Stay America…on April 18 and several people were arrested…Fortenberry [was quick to point fingers at]…the Dallas Mavericks…the [stadium, and the hotel, using the required “]failed to protect the victim[” language indicating he plans to sue them and]…Dallas police [using the novel legal construction
of vicarious liability which has become popular among ambulance-chasers]…
A pastor [named]…John William Lovelace…in Ayden, North Carolina, was charged…with [various crimes of rape and sexual assault, and]…is also facing two counts of statutory [rape of] a child under the age of 15…
It’s too bad Washington only supports self-ownership where drugs are concerned, not sex:
Drug-reform advocates, doctors, and politicians have initiated a ballot measure, Initiative 1922, to remove the penalties for possessing drugs of any kind in the state of Washington, including cocaine, heroin, and hallucinogenic mushrooms. Led by a coalition group called Commit to Change WA, the proposed [measure would also]…dedicat[e] $141 million…each year to substance use treatment and prevention…the funds…would come from cannabis taxes the state is already receiving…Sponsors of the initiative have until July 8 to collect almost 325,000 valid signatures of registered Washington voters to qualify for a spot on the statewide ballot in November…
Your “leaders” apparently also want you to refer to spreading child porn as “correction”:
Tennessee [screw]…Michael Vernon White, has been charged with possession of “hundreds of items” of child porn…[discovered] after an Internet service provider detected and reported multiple uploads of sexual images and videos depicting young girls. The number associated with the uploads was linked back to White…
Why are people shocked when men paid and encouraged to behave violently, behave violently?
An…NYPD [cop named]…Kevin Marcial…was suspended…following…his [attempt to shoot his] girlfriend’s husband [after he saw the latter behind him in traffic]…Marcial turned around and fired a shot at the [husband, but missed]…The outraged husband showed up later at a nearby police station and reported the [attack], as well as Marcial and the love triangle. Cops at first [refused to] believe him, but the husband gave [them] the…license plate number, which they traced back to Marcial. A shell casing was also found at the scene…police reached out to Marcial, who, with his lawyer, [later] surrendered…An NYPD spokeswoman s[pun this as] Marcial “self-report[ing]” the shooting…
In the News (#1220)
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Scapegoating Gen Z…belies the enduring hold of sex-negativity on our culture. – Asa Seresin
A [typical and representative Kansas cop] is facing over two dozen charges…[for] raping a woman while [wearing his magical clown costume]…Jonathan Gardner…[is mostly being] charged with…official misconduct…[because he stalked potential victims using] Kansas [cop shop computer]…systems…
A timid but possibly important challenge to FOSTA from inside Congress, take 2:
…a few members of Congress are…at least willing to consider the possibility that they messed up in passing FOSTA. To this end, they’re backing legislation that would further study [its] effects…and of the Justice Department’s shutdown of websites—like Backpage and Rentboy—popular for sex worker advertising. First introduced in 2019, these measures promptly flopped. Now, their sponsors—Ro Khanna…Barbara Lee…Elizabeth Warren…and Ron Wyden…are trying again…In the findings section of the bill, the [politicians] explain (with a shocking lack of moral panic) how the government’s war on sex work advertising has caused a number of reported harms, and how FOSTA…increased it…Khanna—one of just 25 House members and two senators who voted against FOSTA—[said that]…he hoped getting more data on FOSTA’s effects would be unobjectionable—and useful for eventual repeal…Techdirt editor Mike Masnick…is skeptical. When it comes to sex trafficking, Congress just “wants to pretend to care about these issues so it can get headlines and go on TV to look serious about how it’s ‘solving’ these problems”…
I’m at least as skeptical as Masnick is, but I was pleasantly surprised to see Ron Wyden actually tweet that “Sex workers deserve equal and full labor protection and dignity under the law.”
They’ve chased this ambulance from Austin to Washington and back:
The [US] Supreme Court declined…to settle a question presented by a[n opportunist and her lawyers] looking to [cash in on a novel theory of] Facebook’s [legal] liability in a case where she [claim]s that she was “sex trafficked as a minor” because the social media platform “[allowed her to communicate with someone she now says was] a sex trafficker.” The case had already gone all the way up to the Texas Supreme Court, although that tribunal’s decision pointed out the issues with trying to determine Section 230 protections, particularly in a case that also invoked FOSTA-SESTA. [Though] the Supreme Court denied the request to take up the question…Justice Clarence Thomas added a statement opining that “although the case was not appropriate for court review, Congress should revisit the scope of Section 230”…
It looks as though at least one court is attempting to grow a spine:
[So-called “geofence”] warrants reverse the expectations of probable cause by turning everyone in a[n]…area into a suspect before investigators work backwards from the location data to generate a list of most likely suspects…[cops] have used these for years…[but] courts are paying more attention now…cops were investigating shootings at a motel in Fairfax County [Virginia, and]…had no suspects so they asked Google to generate them a list of people who had been in the area at the time of the shooting…[including] identifying data…the court…reject[ed] this warrant…Probable cause is the baseline and geofence warrants don’t even try to approach that constitutional guideline…Law enforcement either needs to do a whole lot better crafting these so-called warrants or, better yet, go back to the basics and start looking for suspects first, rather than trying to blunder their way into them by sifting through tons of unrelated data.
Somebody whose name isn’t Maggie McNeill is actually applying critical thought to this claim:
…a widely-held belief [holds] that…Gen Z, like the porn-sceptic feminists of the 70s and 80s, is a sex-negative generation. Evidence routinely cited to support this belief includes the so-called “sex recession”…and the annual intergenerational battles over kink at Pride. The idea that young people are abstaining from sex has even crystalised into a neologism: the Puriteen…young people who profess to avoid sex [do so] for a number of reasons: because they find it “objectifying”, “dangerous”, “uncomfortable”, “fucked up and scary”; because they are “exceptionally concerned with trauma and consent”; because casual sex makes them feel “used”…such statements have a political history…that risks falling from view when sex-negativity is treated as if Gen Z invented it. By invoking objectification, instrumentalization, trauma, and consent, these young people – consciously or not – are using terms handed down to them by feminism…While it might seem like a paradox that [even] some young queers are expressing sex-negative views, the historical legacy of lesbian feminism proves that it isn’t paradoxical at all…
Another cost of America’s sick worship of state-sanctioned violence:
…more than 7,600 [cops’ violent incompetence]…has more than once led to payouts to resolve lawsuits…[the] Washington Post…collected data on nearly 40,000 payments at 25 of the nation’s largest [cop shops] within the past decade, documenting more than $3.2 billion spent to settle claims…The total amounts further confirm the broad costs associated with police misconduct, as reported last year by FiveThirtyEight and the Marshall Project…more than 1,200 off[enders]…had been the subject of at least five payments. More than 200 had 10 or more. The repetition is the hidden cost of [police] misconduct: [cops] whose conduct was at issue in more than one payment accounted for more than $1.5 billion, or nearly half of the money spent by the departments to [sweep reports under the rug]…
Another specimen of the garbage the state pays to violate kids:
A [cop paid by the state to stalk, harass, and spy on students] at Auburn High School [in New York molested]…a student…William T. Morrissey, III has been charged with first-degree sexual abuse, official misconduct and endangering the welfare of a child…Auburn [politicians found out about the molestation via]…an anonymous written complaint in the mail…
In the News (#1218)
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America[ns]…associate sin or indulgence with desserts. – Oona Hanson
I’m repurposing this disused tag to highlight sex worker activism of this type:
Sex workers around the world, and many of the platforms they use, have spent the last week rallying support for their colleagues stranded on the ground in Ukraine…[sex workers] have developed a strong track record in recent years of mobilising for victims of disasters and ensuring they see the money that has been raised for them…even the platforms Ukrainian sex workers depend on to make a living have made serious efforts to make their support known. OnlyFans made a donation of 500 Ethereum, equivalent to about $US1.5 million, to UkraineDAO on Saturday, one of a legion of crypto organisations raising millions of dollars…for Ukraine…payment app…Paxum…is currently working…to connect workers with transport at Ukraine’s border with Romania, where they would then be offered free accommodation…On Twitter, sex workers can regularly be seen urging their clients and fans to donate to individual causes that are as narrowly targeted as a life-saving surgery, or as broad as a global campaign to raise hundreds of thousands of dollars for victims of bushfires, as was seen in Australia in 2020…
Long-time readers may recall that I called this a hoax as soon as the story broke:
Sherri Papini, the California [woman] who disappeared for weeks in 2016 and claimed she’d been kidnapped at gunpoint, made up the story and had been staying with an ex-boyfriend…Papini…was arrested for…lying to investigators in 2020 when presented with evidence the kidnapping was faked and of defrauding California out of more than $30,000 in victim assistance money…Papini…[re]appear[ed]…on…Interstate 5 in rural Yolo County, with a chain around her waist and a “brand” on her shoulder she [pretended] was inflicted by her captors…[but] were [in reality] self-inflicted [with a wood-burning tool. Papini, who had a history of posting on white nationalist sites, pretended]…two [armed] Hispanic women…kept her captive…[but] in 2020, DNA found on Papini’s clothes…led investigators to her ex-boyfriend…[who] told [them] that Papini asked him for help and needed to get away, that he agreed to drive to pick her up in Redding, and that she stayed at his home in Costa Mesa in the Los Angeles area the whole time…eventually she asked to be driven back to Northern California…
As long as sex work is marginalized, sex workers will be targets for creeps:
A 20-year-old man…hid…in the attic of a [New Hampshire] woman he [followed] online through…OnlyFans…Mauricio Damian-Guerrero…[ha]s [been] charged with…burglary…for…br[eaking] into [her] home multiple times and t[aking] video of the woman’s private areas while she slept…he admitted [to cops that] he [also planned] to tape [a tracking device] to…he[r]…car…he…appeared to have been in the attic for a period of time, as [the woman] found food, a cup with urine in it, and a pair of headphones [in her attic. He tricked her into giving him]…her address b[y claiming] he wanted to buy her a TV and fireplace…he [also]…admitted…that before breaking into the [house], which is…he[r mother’s] home, he had broken into her Dover, New Hampshire, apartment multiple times…
A [cabal] of [ambulance-chasers] currently appealing a dismissed lawsuit against Reddit…[have] renew[ed] their claim that Section 230 protections should not shield the social media platform…from allegations of “profiting off of child pornography” over user-generated content…through an…increasingly…[popular but still legally] novel doctrine of “constructive knowledge,” as opposed to actual knowledge…
Marissa Sanchez [and the other plaintiffs]…in an ongoing lawsuit…against the [Houston, Texas] Constables’ Office…and [several of its boss cops]…They [agreed to participate in an elaborate scam]…in which [cops fantasy role-played as]…partygoers…[and] prostitutes…[in an attempt to ruin the lives of] sex workers [and their partners and friends]…Instead of capturing [imaginary “]traffickers[“]…they were subjected to [the same] sexual harassment…molestation…and sexual ridicule…that [they were happy to inflict on other women who never did them any harm]…
Crypto-moralism rots people’s brains:
Girl Scouts, and the women who lead their troops and volunteer with them during cookie season, say that the…tradition of face-to-face sales is increasingly accompanied by…angry tirades from adults who want to lecture them about [those adult’s beliefs about] healthy eating…or rant about the group’s rumored (and false) link to Planned Parenthood…”I feel like in the last 10 years, and maybe especially since the pandemic, that people are getting even more aggressive”…[said] Oona Hanson, a Scouting parent in Los Angeles…she’s seen [oafs] make comments about weight gain, tell girls they can’t trust themselves to have Thin Mints in the house, or even yell at girls for “poisoning” people…Other [cretins]…have…harassed [girls] for…the use of palm oil in the cookies. Widely used in commercial baked goods, the oil [has become] controversial [among people who think of themselves as environmentalists] because its production can lead to deforestation and disrupt the habitat of endangered species…a…[rumor started in] 2004…[by] the leader of an anti-abortion group in Waco, Texas…has stuck…among…anti-abortion [fanatics, who act out by] harassing [girls too young to even know]…what an abortion is…
41% of cops admit to beating their wives; some don’t stop with mere beating:
[Typical and representative Georgia cop] Michael Perrault was found guilty on all counts…in…the Feb. 2020 [murder] of [his wife] Amanda Perrault…he…[was] sentenced to life in prison without parole…Perrault was initially arrested on Jan. 28, 2020 [for] battery on his wife…[and] was released on…bond…Days later…Michael claimed she killed herself in front of him…[but] there…[was] a long history of domestic abuse…[and Sheriff Howard] Sills testified it was obvious [to him] from the jump that Perrault had killed his wife and tried to stage it based on details at the scene. A neighbor who gave Amanda refuge in their home also testified saying she told them, “If anything happened, she didn’t kill herself”…
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